Day 22: Line-up change
This is why we were at Best Buy on Sunday. Something that we kept talking about is replacing the, um 32-inch, CRT that is in our bedroom. We’ve looked at LCD tvs. Mac has looked around at projectors. We always pass with my statement being “we only use the tv to help go to sleep at night, and the CRT works fine for that.” However, on Saturday Mac and Ada went looked for DVD organizing solutions, and while he was at Best Buy, he looked at tvs, coming home with two model numbers for a Sony jotted in his phone. He asked me about it again, and on Sunday, we looked at the two tvs online for comparison. They were on sale! And Best Buy would give us 3-year, no-interest financing, and they threw in a $400 Blu-Ray player for free. Now, our new 46-inch 1080p LCD is in the living-room pinch hitting for the 60-inch tv which is broken. We get to keep the money for the tv in our savings account until I have stable employment. We get to play games again. And as soon as the living room tv gets fixed, we have a mounting kit to hang the 46-inch tv on our wall, freeing up floor space in our bedroom.
I was leary of buying into high definition dvds until one format became standard. However, it was free*, and with Warner Brothers Home Entertainment going Blu-Ray exclusive this May, and with rumors that Target is going Blu-Ray exclusive as well, online forums are all a chatter with the death of HD-DVDs. I don’t think that we are going to spend tons buying Blu-Ray discs, but we can rent them from Netflix.
I also used this pic to try the Pixelmator demo, hence the watermark. It would be another option besides Photoshop Elements for affordable photo editing. I’ll probably stick with Photoshop. It is just a pain to have to start up Parallels since we only have a Window’s license.
*One wonders why Sony doesn’t offer a PS3 for free. The 40GB system cost exactly the same as the Blu-Ray players they are giving away, PS3s are coming in last in console sales, and they have a Blu-Ray player, so people will not only buy into the movies, but they would also buy into the games.
